A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in GNU libopts up to 27.6. Affected is the function __strstr_sse2. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. This issue was initially reported to the tcpreplay project, but the code maintainer explains, that this "bug appears to be in libopts which is an external library." This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.
History

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:15:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Gnu
Gnu libopts
Vendors & Products Gnu
Gnu libopts

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:15:00 +0000

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References
Metrics threat_severity

None

threat_severity

Low


Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in GNU libopts up to 27.6. Affected is the function __strstr_sse2. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. This issue was initially reported to the tcpreplay project, but the code maintainer explains, that this "bug appears to be in libopts which is an external library." This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.
Title GNU libopts __strstr_sse2 memory corruption
Weaknesses CWE-119
References
Metrics cvssV2_0

{'score': 1.7, 'vector': 'AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:POC/RL:ND/RC:UR'}

cvssV3_0

{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulDB

Published:

Updated: 2025-08-11T17:56:50.375Z

Reserved: 2025-08-08T09:14:11.987Z

Link: CVE-2025-8746

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-08-11T17:56:25.933Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-08-09T06:15:35.580

Modified: 2025-08-11T18:32:48.867

Link: CVE-2025-8746

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2025-08-09T06:02:07Z

Links: CVE-2025-8746 - Bugzilla